Parent Accuses Football Coaches of Bullying After 91-0 Win

(KXAS) The parent of a North Texas high school football
player has filed a bullying complaint against a rival team's coaching
staff after a 91-0 loss.

The undefeated Aledo Bearcats have
made a habit of soundly defeating their opponents this season. After
seven games, the team is outscoring the opposition 485-47.

A Western Hills High School parent filed the bullying complaint after Bearcats defeated the Fort Worth school 91-0 on Friday.

"Never; I've never heard of a bullying report in a football game," Aledo coach Tim Buchanan said Monday.

Buchanan said he started substituting
players in the first quarter. He also said the game clock ran
continuously starting toward the end of the third quarter.

But when asked why the team did not
simply start kneeling the ball -- in effect, stop trying to play the
game -- Buchanan was clear in his answer.

"To go out and tell your kids, 'No, I
don't want you to play hard, because we're ahead,' that's against every
fundamental coaching strategy that you have," he said.

Western Hills head coach John Naylor
told NBC DFW after Monday's practice that he disagrees with the parent
who claimed that the Aledo coaching staff bullied his players.

The Texas Education Agency defines bullying as:

"Bullying occurs when a person is
exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of
one or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty defending
himself or herself. Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves
unwanted, negative actions. Bullying involves a pattern of behavior
repeated over time. Bullying involves an imbalance of power or
strength."

The Aledo Independent School District will investigate the complaint against its football coaching staff.

Superintendent Derek Citty said his
district will take the complaint just as seriously as it would a
complaint that a group of students within the district is picking on a
classmate.

Several parents of Western Hills
players who attended Friday night's game described the loss as
embarrassing. One parent, who declined to speak on the record, said that
the Aledo coaches could have made more of an effort to keep the score
down.

Buchanan insisted he and his fellow coaches did exactly that.

"In actuality, we probably could
have scored a lot more," he said. "We did try to keep it down. I was
really fearful that we were going to score 100."